I just installed BA successfully. BA starts up fine, but once I am at the title screen, I can move my mouse cursor but nothing happens when I click "Campaigns" or any other link. If I hit escape, the cursor locks up and I actually have to power cycle my computer to recover.

I resolved the problem by lowering the resolution and turning off shadows (I think the resolution change did the trick). Will the patch be a manual download? My gaming computer is not connected to the Net, so I'm currently running the original version.

The autoupdater allows us to much more easily and quickly roll out fixes and patches - it's quite a lot of work to build and test seperate installers. However, we are aware of a minority who might be in your position. I imagine we will build installers covering a number of versions at once, once there is a critical mass of updates such that we get a decent bang for buck.

I've tried adjusting the resolution all the way down to 1280x800(fullscreen or windowed) and turning off shadows but nothing has gotten it so i can click on anything in the opening menu or options menu.

So it won't work on an entirely different machine? Can you list the specs of both machines for me please. Although you seemed to suggest you had an XP boot on the same machine and that didn't work either?

I must confess to being pretty baffled. I've never even heard of this kind of issue before.

Have you tried running at 1024x768? What is the desktop resolution of the machine (I want to see whether it could be something odd happening because of the transition between the two resolutions).